Mr. Knowles, our circuit preacher, came. I like him. We agree upon a good many contested topics. He loves the old flag as well as myself an...

Dr. Williams, from Social Circle, came this morning to trade me a horse. He tells me the people below are freeing their servants and allowi...

It has been many months since I wrote in this journal, and many things of interest have occurred. But above all I give thanks to God for Hi...

Sadai woke very early and crept out of bed to her stocking. Seeing it well filled she soon had a light and eight little negroes around her,...

Sunday evening. Had company every day last week, paroled soldiers returning to their homes. Last night a Mr. and Mrs. Adams, refugees from ...

Boys plowing in old house field. We are needing rain. Everything looks pleasant, but the state of our country is very gloomy. General Lee h...

As the moon has changed, Julia [the cook] has gone to making soap again. She is a strong believer in the moon, and never undertakes to boil...

This has usually been a very busy day with me, preparing for Christmas not only for my own tables, but for gifts for my servants. Now how c...

Sadai jumped out of bed very early this morning to feel in her stocking. She could not believe but that there would be something in it. Fin...

Just before night Mrs. Robert Rakestraw and Miss Mary drove up to spend the night with me. They had started down into Jasper County, hoping...

Tuesday, the nineteenth of the month, I attended Floyd Glass's wedding. She was married in the morning to Lieutenant Doroughty. She exp...

A very cold morning. Elbert [the negro coachman] has to go to mill this morning, and I shall go with him, fearing that, if he is alone, my ...

After breakfast this morning I went over to my grave-yard to see what had befallen that. To my joy, I found it had not been disturbed. As I...

We had the table laid this morning, but no bread or butter or milk. What a prospect for delicacies! My house is a perfect fright. I had bro...

This is the blessed Sabbath, the day upon which He who came to bring peace and good will upon earth rose from His tomb and ascended to inte...

Have been uneasy all day. At night some of the neighbors who had been to town called. They said it was a large force moving very slowly. Wh...

Slept very little last night. Went out doors several times and could see large fires like burning buildings. Am I not in the hands of a mer...

As I could not obtain in Covington what I went for in the way of dye stuffs, etc., I concluded this morning, in accordance with Mrs. Ward...

Warped and put in dresses for the loom. Oh, this blockade gives us work to do for all hands! SOURCE: Dolly Lunt Burge,  A Woman'...

Went up to Covington to-day to pay the Confederate tax. Did not find the commissioners. Mid [a slave] drove me with Beck and the buggy. Got...